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Route from Cumberland, Md., to Bedford, Pa.
Bedford County
Bedford, Pennsylvania
December 23, 1895.
Dear Sir:
You will find inclosed a statement of Wyatt Perry, as to the Underground Railroad station between Cumber¬ land, Md., and Bedford, Pa.
"I lived close to the Mason-Dixon line in Bedford County, Pa., on a farm called the Bear Tract Station. The fugitives would come there from Cumberland, Md. I lived about five miles from Cumberland, (Md.). About twelve years before the war, Jacob Dicken, who belonged to a man by the name of Willeby, who had sold Dicken, and had the money for him. Willeby told Dicken to put his team away, and take a basket ana a note to Mr. Hammond, of Cumberland, (l^d).. Dicken was to be handed over to a Georgia man and taken South. Dicken found out he was sold. He took the basket and note and threw it in the creek, went home, kissed his wife, bid her goodby, told her he was sold, and would have to leave. The following Sunday morning he came up to our place, the Bear Tract, for us to get him away. So we took Jacob down to Mr. Heddington, a schoolteacher, and got him to draw the necessary freedom papers, from mine and Mr.

Route from Cumberland, Md., to Bedford, Pa.
Bedford County
Bedford, Pennsylvania
December 23, 1895.
Dear Sir:
You will find inclosed a statement of Wyatt Perry, as to the Underground Railroad station between Cumber¬ land, Md., and Bedford, Pa.
"I lived close to the Mason-Dixon line in Bedford County, Pa., on a farm called the Bear Tract Station. The fugitives would come there from Cumberland, Md. I lived about five miles from Cumberland, (Md.). About twelve years before the war, Jacob Dicken, who belonged to a man by the name of Willeby, who had sold Dicken, and had the money for him. Willeby told Dicken to put his team away, and take a basket ana a note to Mr. Hammond, of Cumberland, (l^d).. Dicken was to be handed over to a Georgia man and taken South. Dicken found out he was sold. He took the basket and note and threw it in the creek, went home, kissed his wife, bid her goodby, told her he was sold, and would have to leave. The following Sunday morning he came up to our place, the Bear Tract, for us to get him away. So we took Jacob down to Mr. Heddington, a schoolteacher, and got him to draw the necessary freedom papers, from mine and Mr.